{"id":15489,"date":"2017-04-21T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2017-04-25T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:30:54","slug":"animal-poetry-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/animal-poetry-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Poetry Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Are you ready? It\u2019s time\u2026.to play\u2026.<strong>Name that Animal!<\/strong> (Game show voice)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hold your poetry book up high and share the cover &#8211; title, author and illustrator with your audience.<\/li>\n<li>Ask for two volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>Use two volunteers with a buzzer between them.<\/li>\n<li>Again, explain how the game works.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m going to read the poem, you\u2019re going to guess the animal, after I read the poem, hit the buzzer if you know the animal\u2026Are you ready?\u00a0 (Game show voice&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Read the poem (In your poetry voice\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Name that Animal! (Game show voice\u2026)<\/li>\n<li>Who will tap the buzzer first?<\/li>\n<li>Let them guess what animal it is.<\/li>\n<li>If your two volunteers are stuck \u2013 ask your audience for help and have them yell out the animal.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15494\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15494 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Animal-Poetry-Game-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Animal-Poetry-Game-.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Animal-Poetry-Game--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Animal-Poetry-Game--160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Animal Poetry Game photo by Paige Bentley-Flannery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3 favorite Animal Poetry Books:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a4l_EQCwzJc\"><em>National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs that Squeak, Soar and Roar!<\/em> Edited by J. Patrick Lewis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mountain Gorilla by Janet S. Wong<br \/>\nA Flamingo Is by J. Patrick Lewis<br \/>\nPorcupine by Rebecca Kai Dotlich<br \/>\nSquirrel Forgets by Lilian Moore<br \/>\nThe White Egret by Paul Janeczko<br \/>\nPenguins by Charles Ghigna<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kwamealexander.com\/product\/f\/BOOKS\/220\"><em>Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures<\/em> by Kwame Alexander.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Elephant<br \/>\nChameleon<br \/>\nMouse<br \/>\nBat<br \/>\nSnake<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidelliottbooks.com\/books\"><em>In the Wild<\/em> by David Elliot<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">Elephant<br \/>\nRhinoceros<br \/>\nSloth<br \/>\nPolar Bear<br \/>\nPanda<\/p>\n<p>Please email me for more poetry ideas at <a href=\"mailto:paigeb@dpls.us\">paigeb@dpls.us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Paige Bentley-Flannery is a Community Librarian at Deschutes Public Library. For over fifteen years\u2013from the Seattle Art Museum to the New York Public Library to the Deschutes Public Library-Paige\u2019s passion and creative style for art, poetry and literature have been combined with instructing, planning, and providing information. Paige is a former member and Chair of the ALSC Notable Children\u2019s Books Committee, 2015 \u2013 2017, Chair of the ALSC Digital Content Task Force and member of the ALSC Great Websites Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready? It\u2019s time\u2026.to play\u2026.Name that Animal! 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